Portugal-+Edgardo+Alcantara

World Geography Around the World Project Portuguese Republic By: Edgardo Alcantara Portugal Introduction Portugal was once a very wealth nation but it came downhill since the independence of its wealthier colony. Brazil came independent in 1822, thats when Portugal lost most of its wealth wit out counting the earthquake in lisbon in 1755.Then in 1975 Portugal granted independence to all its african colonies and became the founder of NATO,North Atlantic Treaty Organization and became oart of the EU(Europiean Union).Portugal is in the southwestern part of europe, and its area is 92,090 km2.

Portugal Map

Portugal Statistics Population: 10,781,459 Birth Rate: 9.76/ 1000 population Death Rate: 10.86/1000 population Infant Mortality Rate: 4.6 deaths/ 1000 live births Net Migration Rate: 2.9 migrants/1000 population Population Growth Rate: 0.181% Life Expectancy: 78.7 years Doubling Time: 386.7 years

Explanation (minimum 8 senteces)

Portugal is a stable country with good economy and well developed, so The Portuguese Republic belongs to the MEDC or more economically developed countries. It is part of the Euorpean Union and the founder of NATO as I told before, this attributes give Portugal a boost in some features like in economy and development. Portugal is small country compared in size to its neighbors (Spain and France). But has a population of 10 and a half million people. Apparently it is very developed country but it has a higher death rate than birth rate, because the low birth rates and more economically devolped, the country is in stage 3 to 4. Slow population growth rate is do to a chain of events in the past, in the 1960s, there were numerous people that were migrating out of Portugal so its population dropped drastically, then some african colonies people came back to there homeland and revived the population of Portugal. It boosted it up until 2001 that it reached 10 million then it maintained that number until today. High infant mortality rates were reported long atime ago but they have recently decreased but it still a little high. Net migration isn't very much also. All this factors lead to a slow growth rate which causes a much more slower doubling time. It will take more tan 385 years to double its population with the current growth rate. Life in Portugal is calm and its a well devloped country, you'll find more old people than young and a high life expectancy because the development and not so many population issues.

Reference
 * https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/po.html


 * http://portuguese-american-journal.com/

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